• Services fair seeking to offer assistance

    FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP — District 12 legislators Sen. Jennifer Beck, Assemblyman Declan O’Scanlon, and Assemblywoman Caroline Casagrande are sponsoring a Services Fair to be held on April 25 at the Freehold Township Senior Center. The Services Fair will be held at the Freehold Township Senior Center, 116 Jackson Mills Road, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.…

  • Pharmacy gives new meaning to ‘family atmosphere’

    BY PATRICIA YOCZIS Correspondent Tony’s Family Pharmacy in Freehold Township gives new meaning to the kind of friendly, family atmosphere that employees and customers experience at the store. Julie and Tony DeBlasio Because of a unique set of circumstances, pharmacist Tony DeBlasio, owner of the pharmacy, and his wife, Christy, adopted the child of a…

  • Teens alleged to have sold counterfeit bills in CNHS

    COLTS NECK — Two Colts Neck High School students have been charged with forgery after allegedly making counterfeit money and allegedly selling the counterfeit bills to other students at the school. The students were charged on April 13. Colts Neck police Detective Sgt. Joe Whitehead said police are still trying to determine how the two…

  • ‘Viva Shea’: Mets’ old home lives in fan’s heart

    Aberdeen Twp. native’s design protests demise of stadium BY DANIEL HOWLEY Staff Writer On a cold October night in Queens, N.Y., a baseball rolled down the first-base line in Shea Stadium and through the legs of Boston Red Sox first baseman Bill Buckner. Aberdeen Township native Dave Croatto designed a Tshirt to protest the demolition…

  • Stimulus $ will help clean local toxic site

    Officials say Imperial Oil Superfund site in Marlboro will receive federal funds BY REBECCA MORTON Staff Writer The federal government has allocated funding to finish cleanup efforts at New Jersey’s federal Superfund sites, including the Imperial Oil site in the Morganville section of Marlboro. New Jersey is slated to receive $160 million from the American…

  • Friends remember Federici as Freehold favorite

    Restaurant owner helped to create his family’s well-known pizza pie BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer Freehold Borough lost one of its downtown icons on April 16 when Frank A. “Spat” Federici died at the age of 84. He died at CentraState Medical Center, Freehold Township, surrounded by his family. Pat and Frank Federici celebrated…

  • Photo

    CHRIS KELLY staff During a tour of the historic Covenhoven house in Freehold, Karen Grieco of Middletown describes how having a lot of fabric was a sign of wealth during Colonial times. A demonstration of open-hearth cooking and tours of the home were conducted on April 18 in an event hosted by the Monmouth County…

  • John Paul Sedivy Jr.

    Mr. Sedivy, 59, of Freehold Township, died April 2, 2009, at home. Born in Perth Amboy, he resided in Fords before moving to Freehold Township 10 years ago. A veteran of the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War, Mr. Sedivy worked as a security guard for Securitas Security Services USA Inc., of North Brunswick. He…

  • Robert Haynes Bess

    Mr. Bess, 71, of Asbury Park and formerly of Freehold, died March 30, 2009, at Chapin Hill Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Red Bank, after a battle with lung cancer. After graduation from Freehold High School, he enlisted in the U.S. Air Force, serving for four years. Mr. Bess worked for the Garden State Parkway and…

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